Timesuck with Dan Cummins - 55 - The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

Episode Date: October 2, 2017

What happened to Amelia Earhart on July 2nd, 1937? Where did Amelia and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappear to? Amelia was due to land on Howland Island, 1700 miles Southwest of Honolulu, on her almost completed quest to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe, and then she was suddenly gone forever. And for the last 80 years, the US government, historians, explorers, and conspiracy theorists have been looking for her. Her life examined and various disappearance theories explored in this inspiring edition of Timesuck. Timesuck today is brought to you by Bombfell.com - the best clothes in men's on-line shopping. Get $25 off YOUR FIRST purchase when you go to www.bombfell.com/TIMESUCK Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast

Amelia Mary Earhart was a famous American aviator long before she disappeared on July 2, 1937. How did Lady Lindy, as she was often called in the press as a nod to America's other famous pilot, Charles Lindberg, become so famous? What accomplishments did she achieve? And where the hell did she go? Where is she? Her disappearance is so well unsatisfying that 80 years later, we're still talking about

it. And millions are still being spent trying to get to the bottom of this enduring 20th century mystery. Not knowing where she went after all she accomplished is like watching a great thriller, only to have the screen just go blank moments before the big wrap up two hours in. So let's explore this mystery. Let's explore this amazing life. Let's suck all Amelia right on up in this girl power.

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I really hope you hit those so Cal shows this, this come a week. It's going to be my last ones in Southern California for the rest of the year. Check the episode description for times and ticket links, updates to previous episodes, sneak peak at next week's episode at the end of this podcast. Time for Lady Fantastic, Amelia Earhart right now. [♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ So why are we still even talking about Amelia Earhart? Why did the History Channel do another documentary

about the search for what happened to her? Just recently, it's been 80 years since she disappeared. Why do we care? Well, for one thing, who doesn't know to try and solve a good mystery? All right, and also because she let an incredible life and was incredibly famous in her day. America loves and explore an adventure, a risk taker, someone who's not afraid to be the first to try something, the first to do it.

Well, I say America, who the hell doesn't like an adventurer? Someone who challenges a status quo isn't afraid to take some risk. Is there a country where people collectively hate that? God, I hope not. That'll be a sad, kind of boring place to live. Isn't afraid to take some risk. Is there a country where people collectively hate that? God, I hope not. That'll be a sad, kind of boring place to live. We here in Belgium appreciate mediocrity. We like the middle.

We love a man or woman who isn't afraid to do what they're told and live the same life everyone else leads. We appreciate the person who didn't get noticed. Never rocks the boat. Never draws attention to themselves. Now if you'll excuse me, I feel self-conscious. Even speaking this long without letting others have something to say.

So I'm gonna head home and watch whatever show is the most popular and get to bed early. If you're from Belgium, I know that that is a shit accent. I don't even look up how someone from Belgium speaks. That was an accent unto itself. That person was from nowhere. And I did pick you completely at random as a nation. You know what, you may be some exciting chocolate

making mother fuckers for all I know. I don't know. I don't know much about you. But I do know a little bit about Amelia Earhart. So let's take a good look at her life and start at the beginning with a time suck timeline. Shrap on those boots, soldier. We're marching down a time suck timeline.

We're marching down a time, some time, line. Amelia Mary Earhart was born in Atchinson, Kansas on July 24, 1697. She'd fly her first plane shortly after losing her father in the American Revolutionary War in 1756. She herself would fight in the Civil War in both 1810 and again in 1910 and then one more time in 1976. Now clearly, if you're a long time listener, you know that all of that was bullshit. She didn't fight in the Civil War and years the Civil War didn't happen and when she would have been according the numbers I just threw out around 300 years old in the last battle. If you're a new

listener, no, I did not have a stroke and no, it's not going to all be like this. And if for any reason, all of that same legit to you, oh dear God, if you found a new listener, no, I did not have a stroke and no, it's not going to all be like this. And if for any reason all of that seemed legit to you, oh, dear God, if you found the right podcast, you could definitely use a little bit of learning. Okay, for real this time, Amelia Mary, her, her, her, her, her, her, her, her heart was born in Adjensen, Kansas on July 24th, 1897. Town that would also produce early rock and roll pioneer Jesse Stone, a bunch of politicians, no one cares about, and Rory Lee Feeck, one half of the country duo Joey and Rory, who I refuse to listen to, based on almost, based on almost entirely on a picture I found of Rory, wearing overalls as an almost 50 year old man at a country musical award show.

Seriously, overalls, did you just head to the award show? Straight from the fucking farm, stop it, stop it. You're a musician, stop dressing like a goddamn farmer. Atchinson is a town of about 10,000 people on the Missouri River, roughly 50 miles northwest of Kansas City, and it was originally the eastern terminus of the Atchinson, Topeca, and Santa Fe railways. It's also the home of Benedictine College,

and every July, host the Amelia Earhart Festival, where men can put their wives on a small plane, wave goodbye, and know for sure that the women will disappear and never be seen again. It's very popular. No, that'd be horrible. And also kind of amazing for some people. It does have that festival, though.

Amelia was born to Samuel Edwin Stanton Earhart, a lawyer by education and Amelia Amy Oda's Earhart. In 1899, Amelia's sister Grace Murrell Earhart was born as a young girl Amelia Amelia Ayerhart, or Mealy as her family called her. Live with her grandparents, most of the year in Achonson, Kansas, while her father worked as a claims agent for the railroads and her mother traveled with him. And they would say in Kansas City, Amelia and her younger sister Grace, who went by Muriel

or Pidge, went to private school in Achonson, and then spent the summers also with the parents in Kansas City. In her autobiography, Amelia looked back on her early childhood as a very happy time because she was continually surrounded by family members who loved her and had a variety of cousins, playmates. She was also apparently fascinated with travel at an early age. One of Amelia's favorite games, she called Boogie,

involved crouching in an old carriage and her grandparents barn while pretending to travel to foreign countries. That makes sense to me, my parents are gone all the time and her grandparents are probably telling her about her mom and dad in this place or that place. And she's gonna naturally be drawn to a traveling lifestyle.

Though she didn't travel to other continents until she started flying much, much later, she did travel a lot around the states that she grew up. Emilie once said, because I selected a father who was a railroad man, it was my fortune to roll. Emilie traveled throughout the country as a kid visiting state as far away as California. An early family trip to a fair in St. Louis Park, a million interest in new inventions

kind of showed her adventure aside. I love this. She was so thrilled by a ride on a roller coaster of the fair that she tried to build her own roller coaster back at her grandma's house, Natchanson. Mealian her cousins constructed a track, ran it from the roof of the woodshed all the way down to the ground, and she hopped on and went for a ride. I love this childhood sense of adventure, man.

The car was a board placed on roller skates, and Millie went down on the car, which flipped over as they hit the ground, of course. I guess she didn't get hurt too bad, but she had to give up because her mom and grandma thought maybe a homemade roller coaster, maybe not the best idea, maybe a recipe for broken limbs, maybe broken neck.

I'm guessing there was a surprise that she could even make it work at all. I feel like if my kids asked me if they could make a homemade roller coaster, I might actually say yes, just thinking that there is no way in hell they would build anything that would even remotely work. Emilie was also very, always just very adventurous.

As one of her childhood friends recalled, Emilie was the instigator who would dare to try anything. We would all follow along. That had been so much fun trying out that homemade roller coaster as a kid, man. Just sitting on the top of that shed, looking down just to adrenaline. I never built anything like that as a kid,

but I did figure out that if you ran and jumped off of the doghouse, like we put the doghouse I had about eight feet in front of the basketball hoop, you know, and you got a full sprint, you could kind of Michael Jordan it off with that dog shed roof and just slam dunk it, right? I mean, this neighborhood kid, Johnny Pottenger, man, we wore that doghouse out.

Like we literally just eventually just stepped through it and just destroyed it. Doing our Michael Jordan Ducks. 19-year-old Wheatwood, Emilie, was 11. The family moved to Des Moines, Iowa. Gross. It's fucking gross. Wouldn't it better if they just all died rather than having to go to Des Moines?

Jesus. Worst city ever on the planet. Almost the worst. The worst. There was a study taken and it was the worst city in all of the world. I'm kidding. I have no strong feelings about Des Moines. But in a comedy club there, a few times, you couldn't tell you one thing about that city.

Just for a second, I just felt like some riling up the Des Moines list, there's just people getting right and what the fuck was that about? Million Muriel started splitting time between a grandparents home in Kansas and her parents knew home in Des Moines. I guess her dad was pretty careless with money. I also started developing quite the drink inhabit

around this time. And when he was out of work or out of money and millions of nurses, we head back to grandma and grandpa's house. 1907 at Iowa State Fair, Amelia saw her first airplane and she described it as a to grandma and grandpa's house. 1907 at the Iowa State Fair, Amelia saw her first airplane, and she described it as a thing of rusty wire and wood. So you know, it wasn't love at first sight

between Amelia and aviation. The plane didn't impress at the time, but she had yet to see one flying around in the sky. Other moves throughout the Midwest followed as her dad moved from job to job. 1911, Amelia's grandmother, Amelia Otis, who had been helping raise her and her sister and Atkinson. She died. And after her death, her father began to drink

more heavily than ever and eventually lost another job. Well, grandma Otis left Amelia's mother a small fortune, but due to Edwin's alcoholism, she didn't make it readily available to them. It had to be, you know, kind of accessed throughout a trust fund that would just dole it out little by little. And the girls now go to live full-time With their financially struggling parents 1913 Edwin gets a job in St. Paul, Minnesota Our next to Minneapolis one of the twin cities the family moves north 1914 and the spring in 1914 Edwin took yet another job in Springfield, Missouri

But after moving discovered that the man he was to replace had decided not to retire That had to have been slightly annoying. Oh, so you're not going to retire and let me have the job that I moved my entire family just to Springfield to take. That I moved them from one state to another to take, you're not going to then let me have that. You realize we moved here only for that, right?

And now you're just not gonna give it to me. Well, I guess who's gonna get drunk for a long time now? Rather than return to Kansas with Edwin, where he eventually left the railroad business and started his own law practice, Amy left Edwin, who's drinking problem has getting more and more out of hand, different kids to live with some friends

and Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. Amelia Shame, and humiliation over her dad's alcoholism and the family's financial struggles. Their dad's drinking creative gave her a lifelong disdain dislike for alcohol and need for financial security. Well, Ayerhart graduated from Hyde Park High School of 1915 and then attended a finishing school in Philadelphia, the Ogan School, the following year,

which was kind of a junior college for women. Her ultimate goal was to attend Brin Mauer, a prominent women's liberal arts college in southeast Pennsylvania, and then Vassar. Bryn Mauer had also recently become the first college in the U.S. to offer doctorates in social work in 1912. And Vassar in Pekipsi, New York was the first degree granting institution of higher education for women in the United States. Both schools on the cutting edge of women's higher education.

So Amelia clearly motivated young woman who took her education seriously. Over Christmas break during her second year at Ogan's in 1917, she visited her sister in Toronto, Canada, where Muriel was attending St. Margaret's College. Erhart encountered many World War I veterans there, and although she was already kind of helping with the war effort at Ogan's as Secretary of the Red Cross chapter there, she wanted to do more. She left a Gantz to volunteer as a nurse in Spadini, a military hospital in Toronto, where many of the patients were French, English pilots. She and Muriel also spent time at a local airfield watching the Royal Flying Corps train. Her

fascination with flight really began to take off. Pond not intended but recognized and not erased. 1918 during the influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919, which did sweep through Toronto in the summer of 1918, Ayerhart contracted a severe sinus infection that required surgery, which sounds very painful. I don't even ever had sinus infections. I've had several of them.

And one that requires surgery, just imagine just a dull ache. I would feel like your head just wanted just, it was rotting out from the inside. I'm sure before you had to get that surgery. Lengthy recovery period, that fall she goes live with her mom and sister in North Hampton, Massachusetts, where her sister was preparing to attend Smith College. Another early premier women's college,

Sylvia Plath, author of the Bell Jar, chef Julia Child, activist Gloria Steinem, former first lady Nancy Reagan, orange is the new black author, Piper Kermin, and many other notable alumni have come from Smith. Smith College only accepts female undergraduates to this day actually.

During Amelia's convalescence, she completed a course in automobile maintenance, very uncommon for women. Earhart, Earhart, excuse me, girls didn't fuck around, man. She was drawn to fields that were traditionally masculine. She didn't care what status quo was. Definitely an early feminist before that was even a term people really threw around. In the fall of 1919, Earhart enrolled in a pre-med program at Columbia University, New York

City, with plans to become a doctor. And although she did well academically starting off there, she left after a year to rejoin her recently reconciled parents who had moved to Los Angeles, California. So she dropped out, she headed west, and then it was Los Angeles where Airhart saw her first air show and took her first plane ride. She'd later say, as soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

That's how I felt the first time I mocked some poor other human being as a kid. I was like as soon as I mocked someone. I was like, I got to do more of this. How can I get on stage and mock society in general? Man flight lessons. I have never had the slightest interest in that. I barely trust myself to drive a car. Right or wrong, I feel like in a car there is less chance that I'm gonna die if I make a mistake and I make a lot of mistakes. I feel like in a car there is less chance that I'm going to die if I make a mistake and I make a lot of mistakes And I do note statistically you're more likely to die in a car that a plane overall But I think that's probably probably becomes because people are more often in cars That's partly what I think

Maybe that's not true. I am speculating right now I do think though when it comes to crashes You have way more you're way more likely to die in and like a plane crash the car crash like if the vehicle does crash got to be way more likely to die in a plane not a lot of minor fender benders in the sky not a lot of you know people somewhat calmly getting out exchange insurance information

getting back in their planes after the planes collide just a dude look we did to my wing, fuck. I just got this plane. Now my wing is all mangled. It's gonna be in the shop for weeks, dammit. No, I think it's pretty much just explosion, a lot of flames or a lot of screaming at the very least

when planes hit and then a lot of twisted metal, hitting the ground and then a lot of, ground and then a lot of shock and horror. No thanks. I'll play a flight simulator and I'll just call it a day. Amelia began taking lessons at Bert Kinner's Airfield on Long Beach Boulevard from Netta Snook on January 3rd, 1921 out there in California. Snoot gave her lessons in a rebuilt connuck, the Canadian version of the Curtis JN4 Genny, which proved to be lumbering and slow for Airheart and by the summer shed a bright yellow, thinner air star that she called the Canary. To help pay for the plane and flying lessons, she worked at a photography studio and ended

a filing clerk at the Los Angeles telephone company. And she was also the first woman in West of the Mississippi to sell crack ever. Yep, she sold crack for about three years from what I read in my head. No, that would be fucking crazy, all right? What a story that would be. Amelia Earhart funding her early aviation career

selling crack cocaine before that was even invented. Net a new current structure is an interesting character in kind of another early aviation pioneer. Not kind of, definitely. She'd actually later write a popular book titled, I Taught Amelia to Fly. Only a year older than Amelia, born in 1896, and Illinois, snook began attending Iowa State College.

Now, Iowa State University in 1915, taking courses in mechanical drawing, engines, farm machinery repair, typical lady stuff in 1915, taking courses in mechanical drawing, engines, farm machinery, repair, typical lady stuff for 1915. She became fast-knit with literature related to aviation, soon wanted to learn how to fly. During her sophomore year in college, Snook applied to the Curtis Wright Aviation School and Newport News for Virginia, was denied admittance. No women were being allowed at the time.

The following year, an advertisement for the Davenport Flying School and Iowa brought her back home and she became one of the first female student pilots there. And then in 1917, the Tenacious Snowcubentially did gain entry into the Curtis Wright Aviation School and put in as many hours in the air as she could and tell civilian flights in the US were banned for the duration of World War I. Briefly in 1918, she worked for the British Air Ministry in El-Mira as an expediter, putting her mechanical skills to good use, inspecting and testing aircraft parts and engines

on their way out to combat in Europe. After purchasing a wrecked canuck, a snow-cutter ship back to Ames, Iowa, and spent two years rebuilding the aircraft and her parents' backyard. What the fuck? That is a skill set I could not even begin to comprehend. Just building a plane in back yard. What the fuck? That is a skill set. I cannot even begin to comprehend. Just building a plane in the yard. No, and then no way, no way. I trust myself to build a plane

and then fly it. Yeah, if I ever had to build a plane, well, guess who's never going to fly that thing? Uh-uh. You hop in if you trust me. I don't. Uh, 1920 Snooks, uh, so-lowed in her real rebuilt Knook flying around a nearby pasture, then received her pilot's license. Shortly after entering the Aero Club of America and the Federation Aeronautic International, F.A.I. Barnstorming throughout the Midwest and her Knook, she made a living, kind of furtively hauling sightseers and passengers, although her license didn't technically allow passengers.

Then with the onset of a bitter Iowa winner, Snooks decided to head up to California, where she would fly year round. She just assembled a knuck for shipping and ended up in Balmy Los Angeles. Los Angeles, learning about Snoke made me wonder, who was the first woman in the world to fly? Well, before this time suck, I assumed it was a million air art.

Didn't know a lot about aviation history before this time suck. Well, it wasn't. It was your mom. It was your fucking mom, okay? Your mom was the first woman to fly. And if you don't like that, you're just, you know, you're just not cool with knowing truth, I guess.

You didn't know that did you? No, the first woman was known to fly was Elizabeth Thibble, who was strongly doubt was your mom, highly doubted, because she was born about 250 years ago. She was a passenger in an untethered hot air balloon which flew above Leon Flans, Flans of Leon France in 1784. Four years later, Jan LeBros became the first woman

to fly solo in a balloon and become the first woman to parachute as well. In June 1903, a day Acosta, an American woman vacation in Paris convinced Alberto Santos Dumont, a pioneer of dirgeables to allow her to pilot his airship. Becoming probably the first woman, you know, to pilot a motorized aircraft. And then there was Catherine Wright, sister of the Wright brothers.

The first machine-powered flight was accomplished by the Wright brothers. On December 17th, 1903, and both brothers, felt that it was important to recognize the contributions of Catherine Wright to their work. Catherine, while she didn't fly with her brothers until later in 1909, knew, quote, everything about the workings of their machines. Kind of fucked up, that they went with the Wright brothers, you know, instead of the Wright family, considering that, Katherine must have been a little disappointed with that decision.

Just the Wright brothers, huh? The Wright brothers, that's what you're... That's what you're gonna go with. Why don't you just call yourselves the fuck you, Catherine's? Hmm? Why don't you just, why don't you just call yourselves a, we don't appreciate our sister brothers. Why don't you call yourselves the two dick faces, dick face twins? The first woman passenger in an airplane was a woman whose name I have no idea how to say and neither does anyone else. It's ridiculous. I couldn't find a video or audio file for it. It's not a major historical figure. It's hard because her first name is MLLE.

Like there's no, apparently there's no vowel in between the M and the L there. Who spells their name like that? It's MUL, MUL, PIVAN, POTELS BIRG, DE LA POTERI, who flew with Henry Farman on several short flights in an air show in GENT BELelgium between May and June 1908. Soon after in July 1908, sculptor Teresa Peltier was taken up as a passenger by Leone De La Grange, and within a few months, had been reported as making a solo flight in

turn Italy, flying around 200 meters in a straight line, about 2.5 meters off the ground. And then there was a blanche, Scott Blanche, always claimed to be the first American woman to fly an airplane. But as she was seated when August of wind took her up on the brief flight in September 1910, the accidental flight kind of went unrecognized. So she just sitting in the plane and a strong gust of wind came. She got a little bit of fucking airborne and she was like, did it? Check, check in the box.

Did it. However, within two years Blanche had established herself as a daredevil pilot for real and was known as the tomboy of the air, competed in air shows, exhibitions, as well as flying circuses. On October 13, 1910, another early female pilot, Besaka Rache, received gold medal from the Aeronautical Society of New York, recognizing her as the first American woman to make a solo flight. So maybe that's who did it, right? There's always these people disputed.

You know, just because this person was recognized doesn't mean another person didn't kind of do it on their own and unrecognized man a little bit before, but probably Bessica. That's a weird name, man. Apparently she went by Bessie. I bet she did, probably got tired of constantly correcting people.

Jessica? No, no, no, no got tired of constantly correcting people. Jessica? No, no, no, no, it's, it's Bessica. Jessica? No, Bessica, like Jessica, but with a B. Is that a family name? No, just some dumb shit my parents made up at the hospital. What do they care? They wouldn't have to be the ones to correct everyone they met for the rest of their

fucking lives. And yes, that is how Beska talked. Have that name gave her the saltiest of salty sailor tongues. Harriet Quimby became the USA's first licensed female pilot on August 1st, 1911, and the first woman to cross the English channel by airplane the following year. 13 days after Quimby, her friend Matilda, E. Mossant, an American of French Canadian descent, was licensed and began flying in air shows. She'd break a world out to record in 1911.

So while America, it was definitely, we'll definitely go on to become like the most famous early female aviator, far from the actual first. And if I were to figure this out earlier, I guess I would have never done this stupid episode. What the fuck, a point of this? What, why am I learning about someone right now?

If they weren't the first and they weren't the best. I'm so mad right now. I guess we'll go on with this boring stuff. Not kidding, of course. Kidding, of course. Yes, there were other female aviators and Amelia would crush a lot of their records. She was very, very good at what she did.

And she took her publicity a lot further than her peers. By doing the whole mysterious disappearance thing. If they wanted their careers to go a little further, maybe they should have disappeared forever, okay? She was willing to take it to the next level. Now back to Snook and Earhart, Earhart, back in 1921. I hate when people's names are so phonetically different than how they're spelled.

Because I have to put, I have to mentally put air every time I come across information has her name in it, even though it's pronounced ear, ear heart is how it's spelled exactly. But it's air heart, a snook thought air heart was ready to fly a cell about after 20 hours of flight training. Generally 10 hours were deemed sufficient at the time, but air heart insists on having stunt training

before flying alone. Remember she was adventurous. And then Amelia began participating in public aerial demonstrations and aerorodios. I love that that's a term, an aerodio. Then in the fall of 1922, just a year after learning to fly, she set an unofficial altitude record for women flying to 14,000 feet.

And then on March 17th, 1923, she received top billing for the aerodio and opening event at Glendale Airport in Glendale, California. The student becomes the teacher. Top billing. The girl who had built a homemade roller coaster as a kid was a natural daredevil.

All right, unfortunately due to a change in the Airhart family's fortune, her dad was still blown family dough on the old whiskey fire water. And Amelia wasn't making much money at Air Rodeos, which every time I say it makes me picture a tiny plane in the center of all the other planes, but a little rodeo clown in it. For some reason, just a little rodeo tiny plane in the center of all the other planes with a little rodeo clown in it, for some reason.

Just a little rodeo clown plane in the middle of the other planes. Earhart, she had to sell her precious Airstar in 1923 in June and her aviation dreams would have to kind of wait a little bit as life got in the way as it sometimes does. 1924, Amelia's parents divorce. Earhart moves back to the East Coast.

She had been pissed about that. I moved it, I dropped out of med school to be with you guys, getting back together. And now you're just done again. You son to bitches. She moves back to the East Coast with her mom and sister, Settling and Boston, Massachusetts, where she worked at the Denison House,

teaching English to immigrant families. She became a full-time living staff member at Denison House, which provided social services. In education to the urban poor, by having educated women live with him. Noble job, noble job, but provided social services, you know, an education to the urban poor by having educated women live with them. Noble job, noble job, but I'm guessing Amelia was a little depressed to be doing it, little depressed about this life change, right? Just I know having your own plane and dreaming of smashing, you know, continually smashing

aviation records was fun. That was a fun, you know, kind of dream to have. And how, but how much more fun is it to live with immigrant families and teach them how to order a hot dog or a root for the red socks or how to say, gala, gee, Bob, isn't that swell? Which is more fun? Teaching English to incoming Hungarians fleeing recently, war torn Europe in the in the cold winter of Boston or feeling the warm wind blow through your hair as you store above the orange groves and the beautiful beaches of Southern California.

Which one is kind of a toss up? Well, by 1928, she's back in the flight game. She would make in friends with local aviation enthusiasts on the East Coast in 1928. She was invited to join Pilot Wilmer Bill Stoltz. You know what? He would do some cool stuff here. There's a reason he didn't get famous, and I'm gonna say it's his name. Charles Lindbergh, that's a fucking aviation name.

Who's that pilot? That's Charles Lindbergh, that's who that is. Pay your respects. Very different than who's that other guy? That's Wilmer Stoltz, that's Wilmer St. That's Wilmer St. is who that guy is. That is Wilmer, that's the best pilot in America. Wilmer St. gonna be a lot of Wilmers being named coming up because of that guy.

No. But anyway, she was invited to join pilot Wilmer St. and co-pilot mechanic, Louis E. Slim Gordon. Oh, Slim and Wilmer. As a passenger on their transatlantic flight sets to take place a little over a year after Charles Lindbergh's landmark flight, and she would become the first woman to ever fly across the Atlantic. Woohoo!

Take that immigrant family. Why don't you figure out how America works on your own? On June 17th, 1928, the trio left Newfoundland in a Fokker F7 and about 21 hours later arrived in Buryport, Wales. Successful flight made headlines around the world in no small part because book publisher and publicist George P. Putnam was involved in the project. He was successful publisher, very familiar with the aviation industry. He's already working with Charles Lindbergh, published in his work, and he knew Amelia's involvement in this flight would be great for press. Well, George would later become Earhart's manager and eventually her husband, a ticker-tape parade in

New York City, and a reception at the White House by President Calvin Coolidge catapulted the crew of this flight to fame and introduced the name Amelia Earhart to the American public. And then of course, the other two guys kind of faded away due to obscurity because they didn't get better names. Although Earhart was just a passenger in her own word, she was a sack of potatoes. The trip set the stage for Earhart to become a pioneer of aviation and a true American celebrity. By the end of the year, Putnam had arranged for her first book to be published, titled 20 Hours, 40 Minutes, Our Flight in the Friendship, 40 minutes, our flight in the friendship. The American girl first across the Atlantic by air

tells her story. Man, do they get paid by the letter? Titles back then? That's a long-ass title. Man, titles have really evolved. That's a terrible title, but I guess it did well. And then in early 1929, George and Earhart released a sex tape.

Yeah, Amelia never even took off her dress in the video when George barely lowered his pants, barely lowered his trousers. And only last a few minutes, it was the missionary position the entire time, not a word was spoken, nor eye contact made, and Mary a grown was heard,

but it was very scandalous for the time. An extraordinary, since actual video had not been invented yet. So of course it didn't happen, Hail Nimrod! I drank a lot of coffee today. 1929. August 1929, the Cleveland Air Race, Transcontinental Race, was open to women as a nine-stage race that began in Santa Monica, California and ended in Cleveland, Ohio.

That seems a little anticlimactic. Nothing against Cleveland, but you probably rather go Cleveland, Santa Monica. In the women's Air Derby, Deb the powder puff derby by humorist and well, showmanist Will Rogers. Powder puff, that's got a little demeaning. Airhart piloted a new Lockheed Vega one, the heaviest of the planes flown in her class. God, that must have actually pissed those women off, man.

So patronizing. Oh, that's cute. You're gonna do your little fly thingy. Just kind of like the men, but slower. Ha, ha, ha, ha,. Ha ha ha ha, adorable. Well, make sure you put on your pretty makeup and get your nails did, just right. You silly pretty little things, you.

I'm guessing Amelia was not the type of woman who thought of her racist as powder puff racist. Probably wanted to take a powder puff and just shove it as far as she could up Will Rogers' ass. Due to several mishaps and one fatality, do people die in powder puff race as will? Only 16 to 20 pilots completed the race. Luis Staden won the class D race

with the beach craft travel airspeed wing. Gladys O'Donnell came in second with the Waco ATO, and Earhart came in third with an Hervega. Two hours behind the winner. So as bad ass, as Earhart wasn't a plane, there were other female badasses flying around at the time, did not know that. Never had so many female pilots

spent a significant amount of time together or gotten to know each other so well because of the camaraderie. And support they felt during the race, stayed in no Donald, Earhart, Ruth Nichols, Blanche, Neuys, and Phoebe Omley gathered to discuss forming an organization for female pilots, the first of its kind, and they called themselves Labia, the first of its kind, and they called

themselves LaBia, the lady aviators belonging to international aviation. No, no, they did not, but the 11-year-old inside of me thinks that is hilarious. No, they called themselves a 99s. All 117 of the women pilots licensed at the time were invited to join. That's how they got the name. On November 2nd, 1929, 26 women, including Aera Hart, met at the Curtis Airport in Valley Stream, New York, to form the organization named for the 99 Charter Members. Aera Hart was the first president of the organization, so despite not winning that derby, she was clearly a leading aviator of her day.

While following Putnam's divorce from his first wife, Dorothy Binney in 1929, his professional relationship and friendship with Arahart developed into a romantic one. After numerous marriage proposals, Arahart finally accepted and they were married on February 7th, 1931. Arahart called the Marriage of Partnership with Dual Control. She actually did something kind of a hurdle for the day.

She made him agree to do a trial marriage for that first year. And then if it lasted after the year, then they would kind of consolidate their assets. But that first year, they kept everything separate. Let's just let's make sure this works. She was no powder puff. I mean, you know, powder puff, by the way, when used as an adjective, as two meanings, one is a a sport played by women or girls only. And the second meaning is ineffective.

So how derogatory is that term? After the marriage, Putnam continued to manage Arahar's career, arranging her flying engagements, which were often followed by lecture tours to maximize the opportunity for publicity. And not only did she take, not take, excuse me, his last name when they married, he would become known publicly as Mr. Arahar,

as her Fame grew. Also clearly very uncommon. On April 8th, 1931, Ayerhart set an altitude record in a pitcare in Otto Jiro, kind of a type of early helicopter that would stand for years. This thing looks terrifying, by the way, if you want to Google Otto Jiro,

it is, I would never get in one of these. It had the big overhead blade of a helicopter combined with the body of an early two-seater plane. It has to kind of look like if you went to the airport, any airport walked out of the gate and would lead to this type of contraption, any reasonable person who cares about their life would say something to the effect of,

nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, there's no fucking way I'm climbing into that death trap. No, no, absolutely not. Amelia was sponsored by the Beach Nut Company in an attempt to be the first pilot to fly in Otto Jiro from coast to coast, but discovered on arrival that another pilot had accomplished a feed of week before. Damn it.

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Amelia's sponsored by beach nuts. I'd like to I'd like to sponsor her with with my nuts Cute loud drunken you'll find and niece lapping Wow, no people in their and their humor center. I've never eaten any beach nuts to my knowledge, but seems like people loved it. Where the hell did they go? Even though beach nuts actually do produce a small edible nut, I can't find any information about people eating them.

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The auto gyro crashed after taking off in Abilene, Texas on the return leg of the trip and then she received a reprimand for negligence from assistant secretary of commerce for aviation, Clarence Young, who probably was just like, why are anybody flying in these? Although she went on the, she went on and completed the trip in a new Auto Jiro. She abandoned the rotocraft after several other mishaps as did every other pilot everywhere because it's an obvious suicide machine. I'm surprised the Auto Jiro didn't become extremely popular

years later with Japanese kamikaze pilots. A 1932 to dispel rumors that Airheart was not a skilled pilot but merely a publicity figure created by Putnam, Amelia began planning a solo trans-Atlantic flight from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland to Paris, which would make her the first female and second person ever after Lindbergh to fly solo across the Atlantic. Well Earhart took off May 20, 1932 and her Lockheed DL1, five years to the day after Lindbergh began his historic flight.

Mechanical problems, adverse weather force, air hearts of land in a pasture near London Dairy, Ireland, rather than Paris, but her achievement was undeniable. She still made it across the Atlantic. The National Geographic Society awarded her a gold medal presented by President Herbert Hoover. She's hung out with two presidents now. Congress award or Congress Awarded her, excuse me, a distinguished flying cross.

You know, both of those things Awarded to a woman for the first time. So well done Amelia. I cannot imagine trying to do something like that alone, especially early in aviation history. Anything goes wrong when you're over the middle of the Atlantic, you're fucked. You hit one rogue Canadian goose, you're done, you're dead.

One unlucky light and you bolt, you're fried. You notice a little fuel leak, maybe it's not even that bad, but you're in the very middle of the Atlantic, well you're gonna die. You are gonna go into the cold, terrifying depths of the Atlantic, just disappear forever into that mysterious water. If I have a crash in a flight, I hope it's on land. I really do. Just just explode, just explode an impact and be done with it.

I don't want to land in the water and somehow live for another few terrifying minutes, wondering if I'm just gonna drown or something, just, you know, insanely creepy sea critter is gonna eat me. No thank you. After this flight, Airhart continues to kick some aviation ass. She goes on to set records and achieves first for females,

aviation left and right. August 1932, she became the first woman to fly nonstop, coast to coast across the continental United States and her Lockheed Vega. She had the fastest nonstop, trans-connoble flight by a woman in 1932. 1933, she was one of two women to enter the Bendix race from Cleveland, Ohio

to Los Angeles, California. See, they're doing it right this time. Where officials had opened up to women, allowing them to compete against men in the same race for the first time. Although she crossed the finish line six hours behind the men, on her return flight, she beat the non-stop trans continental flight record she'd set previously by two hours. 1934, Airhart continued to receive awards and accolades for her record setting achievements. She won the Harman, Harman trophy, excuse me, as Americans outstanding airwoman again in

1934 after winning it in 1932 and 1933. She was given honorary membership in the National Aeronautic Association and was awarded the Cross of Night of the Legion of Honor by the French government. That's a long title. This is the Cross of Night. Is that of the Legion? Oh, not done yet, of honor. Oh, okay.

It's the Cross of Night of the Legion of Honor. Erhard launched a fashion line in 1934, but did not have success and closed it by the end of the year. You can find old ads for her products, and after looking at some, not surprised it didn't take off. Horrible spokesmodel, barely smiled. Her hair often looked like it wasn't even combed.

And she dressed like a small town grandpa. It's like a flannel shirt and ill-fitting jeans, much better pilot than fashion mogul. She also worked with Paul Mans, a Hollywood stunt pilot and technical advisor to prepare for a new record flight from Hawaii to California, as the first person to fly so little across the Pacific. She received FCC approval to install a two-way radio in her high-speed special 5C Lockheed Vega first time it was ever installed in a civilian aircraft. On December 3rd, 1934, another pilot and his two-man crew had

disappeared attempting to complete the flight from California to Hawaii. Well, in spite of the disappearance and public opinion that the flight was both dangerous and pointless, the Vega was shipped to Honolulu, Hawaii in late December and on January 11, 1935, Airheart took off from Wheeler Army Airfield near Honolulu and a little over 18 hours later, she landed in Oakland, California, set another record, and then she saw Will Rogers there. And she walked over to him, whipped her dick out and smacked him across the face with it. How's that for a pound of puff, huh?

All right, hoping to break another record in April 1935, she became the first person to fly solo from Los Angeles, California to Mexico by official invitation from the Mexican government. But got lost, drifted 60 miles off course, and had to stop according to what I read, had to stop and ask for directions. How does that work when you're flying?

Which I can find out more, which I can find out more about her stopping and asking for directions. I just picture her landing in some like random Mexican village. Just pop, don't de a star, a sea of dad, a de Mexico. And some do just points towards Mexico City. She just hops back in her plane.

Gracias, just fucking takes off. In May of 1935, she set a record, traveling nonstop from Mexico City to Newark, New Jersey, arriving in just over 14 hours. In August 1935, she flew in the Bendix race again, this time with Manson, she placed fifth. It did a little better, one 500 bucks. Erhart then joined the Purdue University staff as a women's career counselor and advisor

in aeronautics in 1935 after being invited by University President Edward C. Eliot to lecture at the university in 1934. December 1935, Purdue had a conference on women's work and opportunities and Ayerhart was the featured speaker. And July 1936, Purdue and other sponsors helped Arahart purchase a Lockheed Electra 10E, which she called her flying laboratory, and she began planning a trip to fly around the world at the equator. And in the early 1937, she and Frank Newton, her navigator, began their first attempt to

fly around the world. They flew from Oakland, California to Honolulu, Hawaii, March 17, 18, but crashed while attempting to take off from Luke Field near Pearl Harbor on March 20, and luckily neither was seriously injured. Now, Frank Nounan, should probably take a second to learn a little bit about the other person who disappeared with a milieu back in 1937. Nounan was a recently escaped convict who had killed several women in the previous years, before 1937, all of which, well, I say killed, all of them all just disappeared. So it's kind of weird

that no one has ever really looked into that angle. Three women disappeared when hanging out with Frank Noon in the years 1934, 1935, and 1936 each. So nine total each year three women would disappear. So and never looked into. So I don't know. I don't know. Anyway, he was a flight. No, I just thought I could just made that up just now.

Of course, that is not true. Noon was an American flight navigator, C. Captain Aviation Pioneer. He was just four years older than Amelia. He was extremely experienced navigator, charted several commercial airline routes across the Pacific in the mid-30s in the late 20s, Newton had learned to fly himself. He was issued a pilot's license in January 1930 in New Orleans, had worked as a naval navigator for the merchant marines and the training, I guess, translated to work in an aviation. He once wrote, the actual navigation was comparable, with such as would be practiced afloat.

Fixes were determined entirely by stellar observations at night. What a crazy job that was. Navigating a plane in the days before radar and air traffic control. Navigating by the stars, I can't imagine navigation now without GPS, now that I'm used to it. Like if someone was just like, oh, you just had yeast for a few miles,

and then you want to turn and head south, once you make it to the second ridge over there. What in the hell are you talking about? Well, I look like Galileo to you. You find me a computer that tells me how to do every single step of this and you find it now. After the plane was repaired at the Lockheed Plant in California, they planned a second attempt, an attempt that would be their last, if you're familiar with this story at all. Sadly, Noonan would get married in Arizona in between flight attempts and the new couple would only spend a few days together before his ill-fated final flight with Emilia. Ninth tearing 37, Emilia Earhart and Noonan,

they give it another go. Wouldn't be the first time someone had flown across the globe by the way. I didn't know that before I looked into all this. Several pilots actually first accomplished that back in 1924. So I was a team of aviators working for the United States Army Air Service, the precursor of the United States Air Force.

And that trip took 175 days, covering over 27,000 miles. Airheart attempted to do it and considerably less time, hoping to complete the journey around six weeks. And she would have been the first female pilot to do it by a long ways. After her disappearance,

it would take almost 30 years for a woman to fly solo around the globe in a plane. It would be Geraldine Jerry Mach, accomplishing the journey on April 18, 1968. Starting on May 21, 1937 from Oakland, California, in the recently repaired Lockheed, Elektra, she and navigator Fred Noonan stayed overland as much as possible.

After relatively short flights to Burbank, California, Tucson, Arizona, the next touchdown in New Orleans, then Miami, where the plane was tuned up for the long trip. From Miami, they flew to the Caribbean to an enthusiastic welcome in San Juan, then to Natal, Brazil for the shortest possible hop over the Atlantic, although at 1727 miles, it was the longest leg of the journey they completed safely. Then they touched down in Senegal, West Africa. They flew eastward across Africa to Cautorum, and then to Ethiopia.

From Asab, Ethiopia, they were the first to make an Africa to India flight, a 1627 mile leg from Calcutta, India. They flew to Rangoon, Bangkok, and then Bandung in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. Monsun weather prevented departure from Bandung for several days, repairs were made on some of the long distance instruments which had given them trouble previously. During this time of Amelia had become ill with dysentery the last several days. That sounds fun After stopping Darwin Australia, they continued eastward to lay New Guinea arriving there on June 29th All this traveling just over a month's time, man. It's so much time in a tiny plane The Lockheed model 10E Electric did have a fully enclosed cockpit

So at least they weren't just out there like the Red Baron out there in the elements. But still a very small plane, man. It's just under 40 feet long with the wingspan of 55 feet, max speed, 202 miles an hour, not designed to fly much higher than 19,000 feet ever. She probably flew a lot closer to 14,000 feet in a lot of her journey. Traveling by those little planes back then compared to traveling on modern planes, especially like commercial flights, that must be like traveling across land by a dirt bike compared to traveling on modern planes, especially like commercial flights, that must be like traveling across land by dirt bike compared to traveling by big bus.

Must have been one hell of an adventure to fly over all that land, looking down at the Caribbean, looking down at South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, India, islands of the South Pacific, Australia, flying low enough, slow enough to really take it all in. From Ley, they took off from, for Howland Island, a long 220, 2,200 mile away island in the Pacific,

and they never arrived. To aid in radio communications, the US Coast Guard cut her ittiska was stationed off Howland Island. It makes me want to say Ithaca, but it's ITASCA. The Lockheed Electric took off from lay at zero, Greenwich Mean Time. Eight hours later, she called in to lay for the first time. At 1930 Ithaca received the following message. KHAQQ calling Ithaca. We must be on you, but cannot see you. Gas is running low. QQ calling it is we must be on you but cannot see you gas is running low. An hour later the last message came in we are in line position of 157-337. We'll report on 6,210 kilo cycles. Wait, listen on 62 10 kilo cycles.

We are running north and south and then silence forever. Well, the US Coast Guard Navy scoured the area by ship and plane for two weeks after the disappearance. George Putnam, AirHards husband and listed civilian mariners to continue the hunt. Over the years enthusiasts have looked for signs of airheart on her plane and the martial islands on Saipan, deep under water. Nothing conclusive has ever been found.

No wreckage, no remains. 80 years on, the mystery surrounding her disappearance and the excitement around solving it has hardly waned. Every once in a while, a new clue does come to light. History channel documentary, for example, revealed an archival photograph showing Eriheart and Nune in a live on a dock in the Marshall Islands hundreds of miles from Haaland. Well, what appears to be that? It's not definitive, but it very much appears to be them. 2017 expedition sponsored by NASA Geographic scoured the island of Niku, Mororo, Roruru, and island 350 nautical miles away from Halen, where some believed Airhart crash landed. The expedition combed the island with four

dogs, specialized and sniffing out deeply buried and ancient human remains. And it came across the management discoveries. But they didn't find air hearts. So what the hell happened? Well, let's hop out of this timeline and let's do our best to figure it out. Good job, soldier. Made it back. Barely.

The official US position is that air heart and unit ran out of fuel on their way to Howland Island and crashed into the Pacific Ocean. The US Coast Guard cutter, Itzaka, was at Howland to assist Arahart as we stated in this pre-radar era by providing radio bearings and a smoke plume. But only to radio problems communication was sporadic and broken. According to Itzaka's radio logs, Arahart indicated she must be near the island

but couldn't see it and was running low on gas. And then she never made it, of course, to the island. Well, about 15 years ago, Nottas Coast, Nottas Coast, a Hanover Maryland company that performs deep ocean searches and other ocean research, led an effort to locate Earhart's plane where they believe it crashed

in the Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of Halen Island. Well, Nottas Coast president David Jordan said in 2003 that by studying factors such as air hearts broken up radio transmissions, and what is known about the electrical fuel supply, he and colleagues had narrowed down an area of the ocean they believe will eventually yield the plane's grave. We are confident it is in the area we are searching," said Jordan. Of course we cannot guarantee it, but we are sure it is in the vicinity. Will March and April of 2002, the company used a high-tech deep-sea sonar system to search

630 square miles of ocean floor near Hallant. They didn't find the plane on that expedition and they didn't find it later in a 2006 follow-up mission. Then, in 2009, a separate team of explorers organized by the Wait Institute for Discovery searched a roughly Delaware-sized area just west halloween with the help of deep sea robots and that search also turned up nada. Still an optimistic Ted Weight, the weight institute's president said in a statement that the results of these searches eliminate thousands of square miles from future search efforts and

he still believes a future team will find Amelia's wreckage. Maybe it will, but maybe not. They've scoured the ocean around Hallon relentlessly already and not turned up a damn thing. So did you really crash in the ocean? Well, not according to some other popular theories. Here's another theory. This is the international group for historic aircraft recovery. TIGHAR has been investigating the hypothesis that Error Heart and Noonunein landed in their Lockheed Electra 10e actually did landed on that Nika Maroro Island,

a little speck of land, 350 nautical miles southwest of Holland when they couldn't find Holland. The researchers base their hypothesis on Arahart's last radio transmissions at 8.43 a.m. in July 2. Arahart radio that Itsika, again, was the, she did the KHA QQ, which is the Electrical Letters, 2 Itsika.

We are on the line 157-337. The Itsika received a transmission but couldn't get any bearings on the signal. Well the line 157-337 indicates that the plane was flying on a northwest to southwest navigational line that bisected Halen Island. If Airheart knew in Missed Halen, they would fly either Northwest or southeast on the line to find it. To the northwest of Halen, lies open ocean for thousands of miles. To the southwest is Nukamororo.

Well, the line of position radio message was the last confirmed transmission from Erhardt, but radio operators received 121 messages over the next 10 days. Of those, at least 57 could have been from the Electra. Wireless stations took direction bearings on six of them. Four crossed near the Phoenix Islands, said Tom King, take our senior archaeologist in a previous interview, most messages were at night when the tide was low. At the time of Air Hearts' appearance, the tide of Nukku,

Maroro, was especially low, revealing a reef surface along the shore, long and flat enough for a plane to land. If airheart said any of those 57 radio transmissions to plane must have landed relatively intact. Well, the TIGAR, TIGHER, researchers theorized that airheart and noon and radioed at night to avoid the Syrian daytime heat inside the aluminum plane. Eventually the tide lifted the electric off the reef, sank or broke it up in the surf. The transmission stopped in July 13, 1937. Other evidence points to Earhart Newton's fate is Castaways on Nikku Mororo. Later in 1937, a British party explored the island with the intent of colonizing it. Eric Bevington, a colonial officer, noticed what looked like in overnight Bivouac.

He also took a photograph of the shoreline, which includes an unidentified object that Tigar Specialite speculates might have been a plane's landing gear. By 1938, the island was colonized as part of the Phoenix Islands settlement scheme, one of the British Empire's last expansions, one of their last attempts at colonialism, and colonists reported finding airplane parts, some of which could have plausibly come from the Electra. In 1940, Gerald Gallagher, the colonial administrator, discovered 13 bones buried near the remains of a campfire. He also found the remnants of two shoes, a man's and a woman's, as well as a box that once

held a sextant, a navigation device. The bones were shipped to Fiji, measured, and then subsequently lost. God damn it! Tigger Reachers evaluated the measurements using modern techniques and determined the bones could be from a woman of error-hard size and build. Alright, so now we've got that mystery. Now we're going to find those bones. Why did they get lost?

Tigger has launched 12 expeditions to Nekura Mororo. Since 1989, over the course of those visits to the island, they've identified a site that Why did they get lost? Tigger has launched 12 expeditions to Nikura Mororo since 1989. Over the course of those visits to the island, they've identified a site that matches Gallagher's description of where the bones were found. At the 7th site, as it's called, the name comes from the shape of a clearing around it. There's evidence of several campfires, as well as the remains of birds, fish, turtles, clams, indicating that someone ate there. Based on the way the clams were opened and the fish consumed, the heads were not eaten. This someone was probably not a Pacific Islander. Several 1930s era glass bottles have also been discovered at the site. One of them may have even contained a freckle cream, a cosmetic

air heart was likely to have used. Well, take our expedition took place this past summer at Neku Mororo and they deployed four dogs, the specialized in stiffening out human remains as deep as nine feet underground and as old as 1,500 years. Fred Hibbert, archaeologist and residents at the National Geographic Society, which is sponsoring the K-9, said, no other technology is more sophisticated than the dogs. They have a higher rate of success, identifying things than ground penetrating radar. The dogs, four border collies named Marcy, Piper, Kale, and Berkeley arrived on the island on June 30th of this year as part of this expedition.

And they alerted at various locations on the island, indicating that they found some kind of human remains, but despite weeks of digging, nothing related to Amelia's remains were found. So the dogs were put down of course. And you know, deservedly. You know, you do your fucking job or you get killed if you're a dog, all right?

No, they weren't put down, but they didn't find anything. How crazy is that about how powerful these dogs sense a smell is, right? They can smell the remains of someone who died hundreds of years ago, you know, up to nine feet underground. If my dog Penny sense a smell as that good. Why does she insist on just only using it to locate

and then roll in her own shit in the art, like an asshole? My nose couldn't locate, I could have her anywhere and yet the smell of her shit is so powerful has made me dry heat before I was cleaning, once I was cleaning it up in the art. Shouldn't Penny be in a perpetual state of dry heaving? Smelling that so much more intensely all of the time, it's so weird to me that dogs can smell so much better than us, but are not even remotely bothered by just powerful

stink. Alright, another theory. Another theory is that Airheart and Noonan, unable or perhaps not intending to find Howland, headed north to the Japanese controlled martial islands, where they were taken hostage by the Japanese possibly as US spies. Now some believe both pilots were eventually killed, while others believe Airhart and maybe noon in return to the US under assumed names.

According to that theory, Airhart took the name Irene Craigmyle and then married Guy Bolum and became Irene Bolum who died in New Jersey in 1982. I don't buy this one. I looked at it a little bit, Bolum herself. She got so sick, this poor woman, a people claiming that she was air harder, her entire life, that she eventually filed

a $1.5 million lawsuit against the author of a book titled, Amelia Earhart Lives. There's published 1970, you know, you know, a little over 10 years before she died. I highly doubt this theory, just highly doubt it. Most because I've just seen pictures also of a young Irene and she doesn't look like Amelia Earhart to me. I feel like that theory is really reaching, really reaching.

They didn't have advanced facial reconstruction surgery back then, so it's not she could have just turned her face into Irene's face. I don't mind. Ryan Beck believes she was captured. This author saying if she couldn't find howlin' plan B was to cut off communications and head for the Marshall Islands

and ditch her airplane there. And this is Rollinsy, Ryan Beck, a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel who lives in Kaluah, Hawaii. And he claimed that in 2003. His book, A Million Air Hearts Survived, Ryan Beck, Ryanek, Jesus Christ, describes this scenario in which Air Heart ditched her plane in the Marshall Islands and returned to the US under an assumed name for

national security reasons. According to Reineck, the scheme would have allowed the US government to rescue Ayerhart in the Marshall Islands, and at the same time performed pre-war reconnaissance on the Japanese. However, the plan went bad as a

lot of plans do, and he thinks that Ayerhart radioed that she was headed north, the message was intercepted, and then the Japanese took her hostage. However, the plan went bad as a lot of plans do. And he thinks that Earhart radio that she was headed north, the message was intercepted and then the Japanese took her hostage. Well, in recent years, high school science teacher and Earhart enthusiasts, Dick Spink has picked up Reinhardt, Reinex Torch, collecting oral histories from the Marshall Islands.

He says, are proof that Earhart and Newton landed on a tiny, a toll named Millie. And no one has taken this seriously because his name is Dick Spink. Did you hear that the first time? Dick Spink, Mr. Dick Spink. If your last name is Spink, and your first name is Richard, just fucking, just go by Richard.

How relentlessly are you gonna be mocked? At least behind your back, if your name is Dick Spink. It sounds like it did, it sounds like something bad has happened to your dick, right? It really locked. At least behind your back, if your name is Dick Spink. It sounds like it did, it sounds like something bad has happened to your dick, right? It really does. Like, wow, what the, what the, what's that like in a locker room? Like, you know, if you take your pants down, and you're like, oh, geez, what the hell?

What the hell happened to you? Ah, I got to do the dick spink. Got a dick spink right on the tip a week ago, and it hasn't faded. Oh, well, the whole world needs to know this. Dick Spink said in a 2015 interview, I heard a consistent story from too many people in the marshals to dismiss it.

They say she landed it milley, our uncles and aunts, our parents and our grandparents know she landed here. Well, the marshallese accounts were so convincing that Dick Spink spent $50,000 of his own money searching for the spot where Earhart just landed. Well, he probably has money to blow. It's not like he has a family to spend it on. You live alone when you go by tick-spinck.

Sorry, you contends that the islander's stories will eventually be born out by scientific proof. And then there's the recently aired history channel documentary, Emilia Earhart, The Lost Evidence, that claims new connections between Earhart and the Marshall Islands, pointing to a possibly pre-World War II archival photograph of a doc at Jalut, a toll, one of the Marshall Islands, or on one and the Marshall Islands, pointing to a possibly pre-World War II archival photograph of a doc at Jelute, a toll, one of the Marshall Islands,

or on one of the Marshall Islands, and then the filmmakers claim this photo contains Eriehart and Noonan. The documentary argues that the Japanese Navy thought that Eriehart and then were US spies, eventually imprisoning them on the island of Sipan to await either death, to await death by either execution or dysentery. I saw this footage and I do have to say it's pretty convincing.

I saw the photograph, you know, that they're talking about. Amelia's back, if it is Amelia, her back is to the camera. Noonan is partially obscured by someone else standing between him and the camera, but the figures, the only two Caucasian figures in the photo do really look like they could have been an Aireheart Noonan.

And, you know, the location of the photo certainly makes it possible that they were in that area at the time, and it's not like there was records of other Caucasians being in that area at the time. So I don't know, it does make some sense to me. Despite how convincing the photo argument is though, and it is convincing, again, I even watched some facial recognition experts say

that the guy definitely matches Noonin for sure, that the woman you know even though her back is turned is definitely the right size with the right haircut right clothes being having you know that she's wearing to be airheart but many airheart enthusiasts still dismiss the martial theories that landish Elgin Long a retired pilot who spent decades researching airheart disappearance uh he just believes in the in the she's staying in the ocean he says the plane would have had to float on a long way to reach the Marshall Islands. And for him, the answer to the mystery rests under 17,000 feet of ocean water. Fred Patterson, a World War Airways pilot for 25 years, who also owned two electros, shares a long's opinion. He says, there's just no way she made it to the Marshall

Islands. I've done some long range flying in that airplane myself and I know exactly what it burns per hour. You talk about fuel, of course. Patterson Long and many others in their camp argued that radio transmissions plays air heart near her intended destination of Holland Island. And when she uttered gases running low, you know, the distance from Holland to a million tolls, 800 miles, nearly four and a half hours away, to electricity cruising speed, so doubtful. So who knows, maybe it's bullshit, but it's not like the believers in this theory didn't consider distance possibilities in conjunction with the plane's last known location and fuel amounts into their equation. So there's a chance, Noonan didn't know exactly

where the hell he was when they made their last trend transmission. Maybe he was off, I don't know. Yeah, it couldn't, maybe it wasn't as many miles away as these other guys thought. I don't know. Until Earhart's record is hauled from the Pacific or found elsewhere, the mystery is surrounding her disappearance is just going to continue. Now, these are the main theories I've shared with you,

right, that she sank in the ocean or that she made it to this island, and she made it to that island, that she may have been, you know, a island, that she may have been a spy, and she may have been captured by the Japanese and executed, and she may have made it back to the US under an assumed identity. Those are the main ones,

but there are others and to explore the other theories, we have to venture a little deeper into the web. We'd examine the musings of the idiots of the internet. ... Idiots, the intro that, intro that, of that edge of that edge. In order to really find out what the wackadiddles think happened to Amelia, one only has a type

Amelia Earhart conspiracy theory into the search bar on YouTube. And this will lead you quickly to a video called Amelia Earhart, The Truth At Last. I feel like whenever a video ends in The Truth at last or the truth exposed or finally the truth They've been hiding from you like you know you can get some you're gonna get some good shit The video has a long video description starting off with on this episode of expanded perspectives The guys talk with Mike Campbell about his new book Amelia Earhart the truth at last the second edition Love that second edition Right, they had like the truth at last. And then,

oh, shit, we found a little bit, a little bit more truth, a little extra truth. So we're going to put it out again. Uh, nearly everything, the American public has seen red and heard in the media for nearly 80 years about the so-called Amelia Earhart mystery is intentionally false or inadvertently misleading. Again, you know, it's gonna be good after this. Everything you've been told is a lie. That's when you think, I've struck gold, idiot gold. Bound to be big nuggets, idiot gold, Nizhia thread. Well, the video itself isn't so insane.

Isn't so insane as I thought it was gonna be. It goes along with one of the theories we've already examined that Amelia was captured by Japanese soldier in prison for being a US spy. She had known and died as POWs. But not all the commenters are convinced. Lee Zimmerman chimes in with some flat earth insanity. Oh, yes. Love finding me some flat earthers. He times this is absolute bullshit. A CIA slash Masonic cover story. Get air to bay on here unless you guys are disinfo peddlers. Then you definitely don't want him on your show. She was probably off course

because of flat earth, just like the Scott expeditions to Antarctica using globe based navigation. They were like 30 miles off reckoning every day of sailing all caps for the every day there. She probably ran out of fuel because they were way off course and Nowhere near the target island radio communications were cutting out because of their all caps true Distance from howland island all caps again, but that is what they are covering up this story is bullshit disinfo back to lowercase Campbell said she may have lived up to all caps seven So back to lower case. Campbell said she may have lived up to all caps seven down to lower case years after being captured

by the Japanese lucky number all caps seven. Back to lower case, egg eyes, wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Campbell is a free Mason all caps liar. Lower case, what a bloody all caps joke. Wow. So let me get this straight. They couldn't navigate because of flat earth. Alright, Joe Zimmerman, then how do you explain all of the other sailors and pilots throughout the years who have made it exactly where they intended to go using global based navigation. Do you think that that every single commercial airline pilot in the entire world

is part of the Masonic Flat Earth conspiracy? Right, me and Flat Earth believers, they really are just a special kind of stupid. They truly are. So not only are all of Earth's legitimate science as part of the fly-to-the-conspiracy, but I guess every shipping captain on Earth, every airline pilot on Earth is as well. You know, because if they navigated based on, you know, globe technology, according to this dumb shit, they'd never get to where they were going. Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe. Please, on the tiny chance that you are listening right now.

Please take a year off from comedy on the web. Just take a year off. Not forever. Just take like a year off and dedicate that year to just, you know, some educational courses. Hopefully science, but anything. If not science, anything else. Anything else that hasn't been self-published and doesn't have conspiracy or free mason

or illuminati in the title. Please read some books, please. Okay, next one. Next one is user us. User, S-O-L-X chimes in with complete gibberish under the same video. Seriously, I actually have no idea what they're talking about. When they type, Amelia Earhart was not beloved by the American people.

She was beloved by the American women. She was the poster child of equal rights. Keep her as a mystery and the support of equal rights for the government's sequel, all opposition to the amendment. Then the additional generated taxes the government made off of women would stand firm. And remember the strongest opposition to women equal rights were women. Even President Franklin's own family. Martyrs cannot be silenced. This is why I feel news media will not touch the story with the 10-foot pole.

What in the fuck are you talking about? What? The media is touching. The media talks about all the time. And what are you, what are you, what do people even say? How do people see this? Leave this comment.

They see it show up on the, on the web and think, yes, that is exactly what I wanted to say. Nailed it. Like what? Like wait, she was beloved by American women and opposed the most by women. Martyrs can't be silenced, but the media won't talk about it. So the story is silent. And who exactly is getting taxed more? Where are the extra taxes coming from? Man, but you just

made Joe Zimmerman look like a genius. And that is saying something. At least Joe is intelligible with his flat nutsets. And then user 6777JFK goes full bananas, full bananas, hoping they're just a troll. They type and I quote to make it very clear that these are not my words. They type the line Jews that hijacked the government in 1913 with the Jude Reserve Act. Can't let these big lies out

because people might look into other lies. 1965 immigration change, Kennedy killed by Jews, gas chambers, kosher food scam, 9-11, watch 9-11 missing links, and that's in parentheticals. All the fake shootings in parentheticals, Sandy Hook, etc. Wow! Wow! You just crammed in so much dumb in such a small amount of space, really, all of the school shootings, every one of them, every single school shooting ever orchestrated by a secret Jewish society, right? We may want to make computers and smartphones going forward a lot more expensive, so just

complete morons like this cannot access the internet anymore. And by the way, the Reserve Act, this idiot is referring to, is the recreation of the Federal Reserve in 1913. Was a secret Jewish society behind that? No. Paul Moritz-Worburg, a German born Jewish man, was one of its architects. There are a fair amount of Jewish people in banking, but not because of his conspiracy. Actually, it's most likely to do to ancient injustice. Seriously, historical origins are complicated, but some historians suggest that because the Jewish people had a written culture that was widespread

at a time when other ancient cultures did not, because there was Jewish people roving around, so they were across more of Europe. It allowed them to create an enforced written contracts and have them enforced over a greater distance than other cultures could at the time. So don't hate the culture because they were successful before your culture happened to be.

And other events tilted European Jewish people towards banking, such as Jewish people being prohibited from owning land often in medieval Europe, so they couldn't farm. It wasn't an option. So some of them became money lenders, bankers, financiers because often in medieval Europe, so they couldn't farm. It wasn't an option. So some of them became money lenders, bankers, financiers, because during the medieval period, a lot of Christians were banned from lending money at interest because of biblical user relapse. So the Jewish people, you know,

were just able to fill that role. So they didn't do any of this out of greedy, controlled, secret society shit. They did it because, what, you're not gonna fucking take one of the few career options allowed to you? And yet the myth of Jewish people controlling all the money continues. Man, stop thinking that and meet some actual Jewish people. I know a lot and honestly in my experience, most of them are poor that I've met because you know most of the Jewish people I've met are also like me in the in the insane entertainment world. And what's what's hard to make steady money?

I actually go on and on about why anti-Semitic stuff is just completely fucking ignorant nonsense, but it doesn't matter. You know, when you when you become the entrenched member of the Moronic Horde, there is very little chance you're coming back. So keep thinking what you're thinking 66677 JFK. Stay online, man. Actually, you know what, stay online all of the time. I'm rethinking my, you know, increasingly cost to keep you off the computer. No, I want you actually on a computer all the time

because the more time you spend on a computer, the less time you're gonna have to spread your dumb, shit seed into the gene pool and create more disgusting idiots of the internet. It is an adventure that is an adventure that is an adventure. So what do I think happened after all this? Honestly, after that photo I talked about for a while, I think maybe she did land on another island.

And then I think that after that, you know, she probably was taken captive by the Japanese who were occupying that area. And she probably was actually cuted for possibly being a spy, right? I don't know, that doesn't seem that outlandish to me. Either that or she disappeared in the ocean, either one. I mean, sneaking back to America to live a secret life is the most exciting ending. It's the happiest ending would make for the best movie or maybe the best happy movie,

but I don't buy it. The Japanese POW slash execution ending actually might mess make for the best kind of dark point in movie. You know, especially if Amelia Earhart was a spy for FDR as some people thought. And she just refused to give into torture, you know, dying a hero, you know, the movie she could have some last line, you know, you may have taken my wings, but you'll never take my soul, something better than that. They were even rumors that Amelia Earhart was part of a

Japanese propaganda movement, kind of furthering the thought that she survived the flight. And that she was part of this movement known as Tokyo Rose, which was a propaganda movement in World War 2, where English-speaking Japanese women would spread anti-American propaganda to try to demoralize ally troops. Her husband, George Putnam, actually actively investigated that possibility time, listening to hours of recorded broadcasts, you know, that were part of Tokyo Rose, and just never recognized his wife's voice. Most of the wild rumors start off with the word of one soldier,

saying that he saw her over in Japan after the war. He saw her here, or he saw her in New Jersey, you know, he saw her on some plane, or something, and you know, bullshit. People always think, well, why would he say that if it wasn't true? I can answer that because he wanted attention, and he lied to get it. Or because he was delusional.

People say crazy shit all the time, including soldiers. They're not immune to that. Just other week when I was at the Columbus funny bone, the bartender and some of the wait staff were talking about how some loony tunes stumbled into the bar during my last show. Just outside the club there and was asking about a job. And they started talking about how he was in the Marines and he told one raterus that he served in Afghanistan numerous times and all these crazy decorated medals and

then he told another he was just in for a few years and got out and they told someone else he was a Navy SEAL. He told someone else that he was a marine sniper and had the record for the most wartime kills ever. And I guess this dude I never got to see him. I guess he looked normal when he came in and then he opened his mouth and just pure insanity, just float out of it.

He probably wasn't even in the military. Or if he was, he's not the guy he claimed to be. You know, he probably didn't serve a broad or didn't see much action. He certainly didn't set the record for most snipes and then talk like a crazy lunatic. But anyways, I looked, I couldn't find anything that seemed to offer a legit possibility

of Amelia living past 1937. Unless it was just for a few years, and then she was executed by the Japanese government. And that possibility is almost impossible to ever document because the Japanese destroyed a lot of their military records after World War II. So, if there was a record of it at one time, it's not there now. So, you know, if there was a record of it at one time, it's not there now.

So, you know what you believe, what you wanna believe. I'm gonna believe she was definitely an adventurous badass, man. Her life is the coolest part of this story to me, much cooler than her disappearance. Man, she saw the glass ceiling of her time and she flew her plane straight up and through that shit. A pretty amazing lady, man. Pretty amazing human.

So let's take another look back at her amazing life with some top five takeaways. I'm shocked. Top five takeaway. Number one, Amelia Earhart set numerous flight records. She was the first person to fly solo, the 2,408 mile distance across the Pacific between Honolulu and Oakland, California.

Also first flight where a civilian aircraft carried a two way radio. First person to fly solo nonstop from Mexico City to Newark, 14 hours, 19 minutes. First woman to fly solo nonstop coast to coast. First woman to cross the Atlantic in any situation. First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and so many more records. Definite badass. Number two, while Amelia Earhart never made it

completely around the globe, she did come pretty damn close. She made it, you know, over 20,000 miles of her planned 24,557 mile journey, flying east all the way from Burbank, California, all the way back around the South, to, you know, around the globe, to the South Pacific. Unless, of course, you're a flat-erther, then she, you know, then she just faked all of it.

Number three, she only flew a total of 16 years, but Airheart's aviation legacy has endured long after her death. In an era when most women stayed home and raised kids, she decided not to have kids and to stay outside the home, inspiring millions of other women to follow their own passions. Instead of just doing what society told them to do. And I feel compelled to stay right now, that I stay in home and raising the, you know, the kids is what you want to do. Then do feel compelled to say right now that a staying home and raising the kids is what you wanna do. Then do that, let that also be your passion.

Don't let anybody to tell you not to do that either. You do you, mama. Number four, she never stopped being the adventurous kid who tried to make a homemade roller coaster. And she wrote, you know, the kid that wrote a wheeled board down a Shed's roof in 1922, she became the first woman to pilot a plane higher than 14,000 feet after only first taking flight lessons a year before and

Number five new info She was good friends with first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and even inspired Eleanor Roosevelt to take her own flight lessons Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt flew from Washington DC to Baltimore together in 1933 and and Eleanor Roosevelt flew from Washington, DC to Baltimore together in 1933. And both of them briefly took the controls of the Eastern Air Transport Curtis Condor playing they were in. Two of the baddest ladies of the 20th century together in the sky. And little bonus fact, don't get used to me throwing in extra stuff every week, but just today, 2014, another pilot named Emilia Earhart took to the skies to set a world record. The then 31 year old California native

became the youngest woman to fly 24,300 miles around the world in a single engine plane. Her namesake never completed the journey, but the younger Emilie Earhart landed safely in Oakland on July 11th, 2014. Hail Nimrod! Time sucked, tough, five take away. Well there you go.

Emilia Erihardt successfully sucked. Suck her so hard. Sucked every little bit of that ass kick in American. This Friday in the suck is, well, it's me. I'm gonna suck myself. Gonna get flexible enough to suck myself. I'm gonna tell you where I came from. Talk about where I grew up.

How I decided to get into standup. Many know, many years ago, what has happened since I started to stand up, talk about how a whole bunch of failure led to what, hopefully, will be my most successful project, Time Suck. You're going to know me a lot better after that episode. And that episode will release right at right the night after Time Suck's first live recording, which will take place. The Hollywood improv, this Thursday night. Still not totally sure what I'm going to suck on in that show, but I will release the live recorded episode the following Monday, unless there are some unavoidable recording problems and issues, and then I'll rerecord it solo and release that.

Hopefully the live recording works out and we all get to hear it. I think I'm going to suck on either Richard Ramirez, the Nightstalker, or the Wonderland murders. Both sucks are LA kind of area specific, and that just feels right to do something local. Special thanks to Time Stalker's Amber Marks, Kendra Elizabeth, Jordy, and any time suckers I missed who wanted to mill your air heart. Huge thanks to Time Stalker and editor Jesse Dobner for editing last week's episode, Heaven's Gate, and taking a peek at this week's as well.

He is fantastic and I hope he sticks with the suck and helps me out for a long time. And now let's look back at some previous episodes with some time-sucker updates. All right, first one time-sucker, Caitlin Galey brought in an excellent update to the Mandela Effect episode, time-sucker episode 31. Caitlin wrote in saying, Hello, Captain Time suck. My name's Caitlin, and I'm an amateur time sucker and have recently been enjoying your podcast, which I will continue to do.

Since we are both keepers of knowledge, I felt compelled to correct something you said in your Mandela episode. You said that a woman who would accuse your parents of raping her was later found to be wrong because her hymen was still intact. This is a common misconception held around the world. The hymen is not a barrier like most people think. It's more of an arc that can break from doing like a split, riding a bike or just living

our lady lives. You cannot tell a woman or girl is a virgin by inspecting her hymen because the hymen doesn't work like that. This way of thinking is dangerous because all around the world women and girls are subjected to virginity tests that could prevent them from getting married, working, etc. But I need to prove it. You are a learned man. I need to give you the facts.

I cannot recommend enough the YouTube video, Adam Ruins, everything regarding hymns, watch their take on it. I love this podcast. It's the topic of the fast name for years. It's actually one of the reasons I'm a social worker today. My ninth grade psych teacher had one person stand in front of the room for one minute and then had them go out into the hallway. He asked us leading questions about what she was wearing

and what she had in her hand, et cetera. And when she came back in the room, we realized we had planted fake memories of what she was wearing in ourselves or that he had planted in us, sorry. I was hooked right then and there. Humans are such amazing and complex, or excuse me, humans are so amazing and complex

and I love learning about what makes us tick. Thank you for your dedication to truth and brilliant delivery in every podcast. I have loved your stand up for years, and I'm so glad to have this podcast. Hail Nimrods, Hyman, love Caitlin from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Oh, Caitlin from Bucks County, I love that. I'm not sure if you really are from Bucks County, or you just do that in a reference to me, Colin Buck County, or Colin Buck County in the iceman episode and then trashing it just ridiculously just for a joke. Either way, I like it. False memory syndrome fascinates me as well. Clearly, if you've heard that episode, you know that.

Now regarding the Hyman, I do want to say I was just relaying that it was proved that in this particular case, it proved this woman had not been raped as she had claimed because her hymen was still intact. Definitely not trying to say that if your hymen is not intact, you for sure had sex. So sorry if that was confusing. No, I mean, you can be a virgin, yeah, as you said, Caitlin, and still not have an intact hymen.

Yep, more rare though to have a hymen be intact if you have been having a lot of sex, you know, unless maybe you all you've experienced is a micro-penis, just speculating there. But yeah, all kinds of stuff can't break a high-end bad fall random injury, various forms of masturbation being punched in the vagina by an ninja. No, all kinds of stuff, but seriously, religious and cultural rituals to prove a woman's virginity, those should just all be abolished. So misogynistic, so fucking barbaric.

I mean, you can't prove a man being a virgin. So why are you trying to do it with a woman? Because you see her as property. And that's, I don't care if that's party religion, I don't care if that's party culture, it's fucked, knock it off. Right? 2017, let's move past that shit. Hail Nimrod Simon.

Time soccer, member of the US military, Erin Albright's, wrote in with several updates this week and I'd like to share one of them about the Martin Luther King junior time suck. Episode 42 of the suck. Uh, Erin wrote in saying, Dan, aka most magnificent sucker, aka suck master flex, aka the Reverend doctor, Chester Suckington the third. I, I, I, one of those always cracked me up so much. What's going on my sucker from another mother? First, let me say as a 19 year veteran

of the US military, thank you for your unwavering support of our heroes that put everything on the line for our freedoms. It means a great deal to us just to hear the words, thank you for your service. And I do thank you guys for your service so much. And then he says a lot of other nice things because he's a fantastic human being.

And then it shares a few updates. Aaron does including this one. During the MLK episode, you mentioned Emmett Till, who was brutally murdered for allegedly whistling at slash flirting with a white woman. We'll get ready for this epic fucked upness. Apparently, his accuser, Carolyn Bryant-Donham, lied about the whole thing. It was reported that she admitted to lie and about it to Tim Tyson, who wrote the book, The Blood of Emmett Till. I know that Till's family must have been livid when this news came out,

especially since her husband and his half brother, who murdered Till were acquitted for the crime. Now 82 years old, I don't know if there will be any repercussions, but I think as punishment, she should have a group of black men wearing t-shirts of Emmett Till beaten a bloody body, whistling songs she hates and constantly talking to her until she dies. Won't bring Emmett Till back, but at least she'll be reminded of what she did every day until then.

Wow, man, how messed up is that? And this is me talking now. Thank you, Aaron. A man, look, we all make mistakes, but when you make one that directly leads to someone's death, right, especially that, with a hateful racist overtone, it came along with it.

And then you had time to take it back, take the mistake back before the person dies. And you didn't, you didn't go, wait, wait, wait, don't do anything. It's not true. It's not true. You deserve some vengeance headed your way. I don't care if you're acid 82 years old. If she really did confess that to that author, I hope she breaks both hips. I hope she gets thrown down the stairs, breaks both hips by someone who's never caught

for the crime, but then lives another 15 years in constant pain, misery, and a nursing home bed being, you know, kind of attended to by nurses who are all African American and all hate her fucking guts. That or a less violent thing or I hope she publicly confesses and then devotes the rest of her life every minute, every breath to charities that benefit African Americans and then leaves everything she has in her will to African American charities. One of those things or both somehow. Okay, remember how I said every time I joke about Wicked and this is the last update, I

get some emails, well, we're going to end on one of those today. Long time soccer and Wicked Logan Stenseth wrote in saying, Ola, King of the Suck-ins, let me just start by saying that I'm loving the diversity of the podcast as time has gone on. Definitely looking forward to some more creepy and dark stuff that's Halloween approaches. I do have a scary topic coming up for that. The main reason I'm messaging the Almighty King's Suck

today is to shed some light on your knowledge or rather lack of knowledge regarding Wikens. I myself am a practicing Wikens and I'm also a huge fan of not only the suck, whatever your stand up as well. I'll start off with saying, not all of us are as crazy as you think. With every belief system, there are extremists,

people who believe so much, they believe their own bullshit. Every Wikin or Coven, you meet, we'll have a different set of beliefs. This is because unlike a great many other religions, there is no set belief system. There are general guidelines that we follow, but these guidelines, these are guidelines, any decent person would follow.

Some Wikens believe that the devil exists and worship him. Some believe the devil to be complete bullshit. I myself worship what I can see. The sun that provides me in the earth with light, warmth, energy, the growth of food, et cetera. The moon that controls the magnetic fields and energies of the earth and the ground I walk on

for it provides everything I don't talk to the moon or the animals. I don't believe by simply putting a crystal on you It's gonna heal you. It's all a personal thing that many people have taken to you know too far All with wica is a modern combination of multiple cultures cultures Shaman shamanistic beliefs mainly European Asian Native American beliefs It's all about healing yourself and others and the world without, you know, about being in touch with nature. Most believe in karma and reincarnation

like how Buddhist do. We're basically a bunch of magical hippies. Also, a little unfo for this subject when it comes to crystals and broomsticks, when it comes to the crystal healing, the belief is, you know, you put your own energy in the crystal to project it into or onto, or on someone else, it's supposed to act

as a vessel, I guess, in a way. Colors mean different things, which is why, why for example rose quartz is associated with love. You know, so that's how it correlates together very briefly and simply as for broomstick is believed a few hundred years ago a person came up with a witch doing a harvesting ritual which includes writing a broomstick while dragging on the ground this symbolizes the harvest and animals dragging the ground. It is believed that's where this bullshit legend started. Sure, I still look down crazy and that's fine, but I just wanted to show you that we're all not as delusional and into ourselves as you may think. We're religion that doesn't look down on others.

I may think Christianity is a load of bullshit created by the Romans to control the minds of the naive, but I don't tell Christians they're wrong because if that makes you a better person than more power to you. I will say this though, our religions has never killed someone because they didn't believe in a man in the sky. Just saying, he said, aha, hope I didn't bore you too much.

Looking forward to some more intense sucking. Giveable jangles a pet for me. Suck on king. All right, Logan, well, I appreciate they. I appreciate the extreme for I really do. And I, and I, and I do not think you're crazy. I did say all religion is subjective. And that my point of view, you know,

being wicked isn't, you know, better or worse than being part of any other, you know, spiritual belief system. It's all a matter of faith. I was just saying that being wicked, it's just less mainstream than Christianity is. Therefore, it's more likely to draw members from a crowd of people who are willing to try out

more outside the box type ideas than the average Joe. And because of that, you're gonna get more more outside the box type ideas than the average Joe. And because of that, you're going to get more extremist in it. I firmly believe that still. I've no study to prove that, but I'm guessing someone who is willing to take a chance on being wicked is more likely than the middle of the road, you know, Christian, to also take a chance on a colic heaven's gate. That's what I was getting at.

Not because, you know, someone who's wicked is less intelligent or less or more crazy, but because being wicked is just more fringe. That's all. You have to work harder to find out about it. You have to work harder to become wicked. It's very easy in our culture in America to at least call yourself Christian, to be the church all over the place, easy to find. I don't think I've ever seen a wicked church.

You got to seek that shit out. I don't even know if they have a wicking church, right? You got to seek that shit out. I don't even know if they have a church. And again, I can't explain a lot about it, but I do know I've just never passed by a building that was like, oh, wickens, get in here. You know, and when you have to work harder to get into something, I think you're just more likely to be invested in it than somebody who just has a casual interest.

It's just shown up because their parents are shown up, which happens in other more major religions. So I just think there's gonna be a higher percentage of like die hard wickets than there is gonna be, you know, an wicked extremist and there is gonna be like, you know, you're example, Christian extremists. That's all, that's all I'm saying.

That's all I'm saying, you spell cast and broom stick, ride mother fucker. No, that was too much on purpose. That was too much on purpose, that was a joke. No, seriously, wicking away my friend, get after those crystals. I don't know, I'm not gonna try and stop you. I do just like, as you said, if it makes you a better person,

I agree, man, if it makes you a better person to believe that stuff, and that's what helps you get to life, then fuck and go for it. I'm just glad you're also a member of this cult. The cult of the curious, glad we can all learn about fun stuff together. Man, Wikens, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, agnostics, conservatives, liberals,

Wackadoodle, pseudo-libertarians, like myself, whatever I am. Thanks for listening. Thanks for writing in. We need a next. We all did. All right, have a great week, everybody. If I missed some updates that happened, more reason to the show, just I recorded this one very early in the week, just I had to because it's some travel situations. So I will get to the updates if some stuff is coming through.

That just happened in the news, for example, I'll get to it on the next suck. And follow the suck on social media, at time suck podcast on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, stay curious. Don't fly solo over the South Pacific in a prop plane for the 1930s. Don't let all this crazy current political shit going on, divide us. Liberals, conservatives, everyone else, you know, we can get along, can't we?

I think so. I do. I do think so. We're all just trying to get by and have some fun and take care of our families, you know, on this big old rock we call home, wicking or not, we're just trying to get through the day. And for the sweet love of Bojangles, you keep on sucking! you